My Travels Around The World
June 2015
Day 10: Helsinki, Part 2
I'm writing this just about a day late. We got in pretty late last night, at least for us - after 11pm sometime - and [...]
Day 9: Helsinki, Part 1 (and mostly Suomenlinna)
If you read yesterday's entry, we talked about this fascination we had with the idea that there wouldn't really be a nightfall. Not completely anyway. [...]
Day 8: Barcelona to Helsinki
We really enjoyed our time in Barcelona. And, 3 days was enough. We were ready to go. We loved the scenery and really loved the [...]
Day 7: Barcelona, Part 3 – Gaudi and the Sea
Barcelona is a Gaudi town, as in Antoni Gaudi, an architect known for something called Catalan Modernism. You see his influence all throughout the city [...]
Day 6: Barcelona, Part 2 – Parc de Montjuic
Parc de Montjuic is more of district than an actual park, although there's a lot of park-like terrain in the district. It has played a [...]
Day 5: Barcelona, Part 1 – Gothic Quarter
Today was the first official day of Dan's vacation (we'll just ignore that he's on a conference call at this moment...approaching 10pm....) so he slept [...]
Day 4: Cologne to Barcelona
I slept a pretty good 7 hours; Dan only about 5; we were both up before 7am. We went down for breakfast in the hotel [...]
Day 3: Trier, Part 2; a Turkish neighborhood in Cologne
Turns out I didn't get to do much today. Good thing I didn't have anything specific planned. But the day started out great. I slept [...]
Day 2: Luxembourg American Cemetery & Trier
I woke up about 5:40am, just a little over 5.5 hours sleep. I felt rested but needed coffee, and there wasn't any in the room. [...]
Day 1: Luxembourg
We both slept a good 7 hours and woke up a little before 7am. We had breakfast at the hotel buffet, which was pretty decent. [...]
Departure: San Francisco to Cologne
Not too much to write about, just glad to have gotten here safe and sound. I left Davis Saturday afternoon and dropped the car off [...]
Pre-departure
I'm generally pretty focused on being in the moment. I'm a good planner and make time to do just that; then when I'm doing I'm [...]
April 2015
Easter for the non-religious
April 21, 2019 I originally wrote this on April 5, 2015. The "Indiana nonsense" was about the Religious Freedom Restoration Act that had just passed [...]
February 2015
Employment vs. Religion vs. Freedom
It’s always entertaining to me when an employer suspends or fires an employee for something they said, and whoever disagrees with that decision comes back [...]
Maybe I’m a Confucian! (plus Gratitude for Grief)
The Confucian line is a joke. Choosing to live in the gray sort of requires that I never box myself in to someone else's ideology. [...]
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